Thursday, August 11, 2005
On Trustees and Hysterectomies
Last Monday’s (August 8, 2005) Boston Globe carried a long article about unnecessary hysterectomies.
I sent an e-mail to the reporter, congratulating her on a fine piece of journalism and asking two questions:
- Did the trustees of the hospitals in which the unnecessary hysterectomies were performed have any responsibility for seeing to it that action was taken to prevent them and, if so
- Why was that never mentioned in articles like this?
She responded quickly. After thanking me for the congratulations, she said
- My question was interesting.
- She didn’t know the answer.
- She would try to find out.
We’ll see.
Last Monday’s (August 8, 2005) Boston Globe carried a long article about unnecessary hysterectomies.
I sent an e-mail to the reporter, congratulating her on a fine piece of journalism and asking two questions:
- Did the trustees of the hospitals in which the unnecessary hysterectomies were performed have any responsibility for seeing to it that action was taken to prevent them and, if so
- Why was that never mentioned in articles like this?
She responded quickly. After thanking me for the congratulations, she said
- My question was interesting.
- She didn’t know the answer.
- She would try to find out.
We’ll see.
